Solo/Side Project Podcast and My Top Five Soundtrack Songs
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This week promises to be another monster of a podcast as we are doing My Top Five Soundtrack Songs! There are so many, I could have done a Top Five on John Williams alone. So here are My Five (I really struggled to get it down to 5 but you don’t have to), what are yours?
5. Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters
4. Yen on a Carousel, Ocean’s Twelve
3. Clubbed to Death, The Matrix
2. Gabriel’s Oboe, The Mission
1. Indiana Jones Theme, Indiana Jones
ooh I love this topic…. though very difficult to narrow down.
I’m going to think and post later!
Here are some I had to leave out
Jungle Boogie, Pulp Fiction
Gonna Fly Now, Rocky
Suo Gan, Empire of the Sun
Balcony Scene, Romeo and Juliet
Peer Pressure, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
How It Ends, Little Miss Sunshine
Stuck in The Middle, Reservoir
Let Go, Gardenstate
then loads from Star Wars, Lord of The Rings, Kill Bill, Juno
Wise up - Aimee Mann (Magnolia)
The entire Life Aquatic Soundtrack,
All I want is you (Juno)
Son of a Preacher Man (Pulp fiction)
More tomorrow I think!
1. Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones (Adaptation - best movie eveeer and the lyrics are woven nicely into the script)
Weekend calling me, more next week….
This is a great list… so many options. I managed to narrow it down to less than 15 and that was really hard to do. In no particular order:
* She’s like the Wind, Patrick Swayze, Dirty Dancing
* The End, The Doors, Apocalypse Now
* Now We Are Free, Hans Zimmer, Gladiator
* Time Warp, Cast, Rocky Horror Picture Show
* Mad World, Michael Andrews, Donnie Darko
* Ooh La La, Faces, Rushmore
* The Steward of Gondor, Howard Shore & Billy Boyd, LoTR Return of the King
* Lose Yourself, Eminem, 8mile
* What a Feeling, Irene Cara, Flashdance
* Rock Me, The Pills, Run Lola Run
* Theme, Isaac Hayes, Shaft
* Miserlou, The Lively Ones, Pulp Fiction
* Sinnerman, Nina Simone, Thomas Crown Affair
I love my soundtracks as well so here are just 5 of my recent favorites on the old iPod.
5. Footloose- Kenny Loggins (Footloose)
4. Duel Of The Fates- John Williams (Star Wars Episode 1)
3. Kissing You- Des’ree (Romeo & Juliet)
2. Cells - Servant (Sin City- trailer only I think)
1. The Entire Anchorman Soundtrack (Seriously)
2. Isaac Hayes - Shaft
3. Cream - Sunshine of your Love (Goodfellas)
4. The Shins - New Slang (Garden State)
5. Queen - Princes of the Universe (Highlander)
And the song I mentioned above in Adaptation is actually Happy Together - the Turtles, but the Stones are there too at the end of the movie, classic ending
La Noyee from Amelie
Singin in the Rain
Can’t Buy Me Love from A Hard Day’s Night
The Sound of Silence from The Graduate
Paint it Black from Full Metal Jacket
Mad World from Donnie Darko
Empire Records (especially Sugarhigh!)
Kill Bill (both 1 AND 2)
Pulp Fiction (obviously)
Lola Rennt (Go German techno)
Bandits (lesser known German movie but also cool, especially if you’re a 13-year-old girl)
Shrek (yay Counting Crows)
Disney movies (if you’re comfortable enough with your maturity level to admit the awesomeness)
Requiem for a Dream has a class soundtrack too.
*The RaveUps, “Positively Lost Me” from Pretty in Pink
*Jimmy Cliff, “The Harder They Come” from The Harder They Come
*Franco Battiato, “Ruby Tuesday(cover)” from Children of Men
*Ericka Eigen, “I Wanna Marry a Lighthouse Keeper” from Clockwork Orange
*Harry McLintock, “Big Rock Candy Mountains” from O Brother Where Art Thou?
“Chi mai” from “Le professionel” - Enio Morricone (This is my top-topfive)
The man with harmonica - (Enio Morricone)Once upon a time in the west
Jungle boogie - Pulp fiction
Man of Constant Sorrow - O Brother Where Art Thou
Mad World - Donnie Darko
Theme to Midnight Cowboy-John Barry
Something to talk about (About a Boy)-Badly Drawn Boy
Ballad of Easy Rider (Easy Rider)-Bob Dylan/Roger Mc Guinn
Theme to ET-John Williams
Theme to Edward Scissorhands-Danny Elfman
O mio babbino caro from A Room with a View, love that theme!